Hanger



Aug. 2, 1932. A, BROWN 1,870,169

HANGER Filed March 1, 1929 XNVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 2, .1932

UNITED STATES ANNA L. BROWN, OF

TULSA, OKLAHOMA RANGER Application filed March 1,

In stores selling ready-to-wear clothes the V clothes are supported upon the usual hangers. For display it is necessary that the sales person take the garment from the rack in which the hanger is supported and in handling the garment sales persons moist hands invariably come in contact with the shoulder portions of the said garments. Such garments when displayed for a number of times have their shoulder portions completely soiled. The merchant is then compelled to sell these garments at a great reduction and frequently at a great sacrifice.

It is, therefore, the object of this invention to produce a garment hanger especially designed for use in establishments selling ready-to-wear clothes, that is integrally formed with a handle whereby the clothes may be removed from the supporting rack and displayed without necessitating the hand of the sales person coming into immediate contact with the garment and thereby obviating the soiling of the garment.

It is a further object to produce an article of this character in which a wooden support is employed that has its edges shouldered upwardly to prevent the movement of the garment thereover and which is provided with a hook having a shank that centrally passes through the holder, the said shank being integrally formed with a handle that is di posed over but out of contact with the holder and the connection between the shank and holder being such as to prevent the swinging of the holder on the shank.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Referring now to the drawing the numeral 1 designates the arched wooden holder of an ordinary garment hanger. In the present instance the ends of the holder 1, at the upper corners thereof are curved upwardly, as at 2. These upturned portions or curved lugs prevent a garment supported on the holder from 1929. Serial N0. 343,651.

being moved accidentally ofi of the said holder.

The numeral 3 designates an ordinary wire hook. This hook, however, is preferably of a stronger metal than that usually employed. The hook has a shank portion 4 that passes through a central opening in the hanger. The lower portion of the shank is bent or otherwise rounded upon itself to form the same with what may be termed a head 5 that is formed with an extension 6 that also passes through an opening in the holder that receives the shank therethrough. The extension is coiled around the shank and is from thence extended right-angularly with respect to the plane of the hook and over the holder to provide a handle 7. It is to be noted that the handle is constructed from two strands of wire, the end of the lower strand being coiled around the shank 4 and what I have termed the extension 6 of the wire member.

Preferably a washer 8 is arranged between the head 5 and the shank and extension 6.

It is to be noted that two parallel strands of the wire comprising the hook and the handle pass through the opening in the holder 1 so that the said holder will be effectively prevented from turning on the hook. The handle is disposed in a plane with and directly above but a suitable distance away from the holder.

WVith my improvement it will be noted that the holder supporting a garment may be readily removed from a rack and a garment displayed without necessitating the handling or touching the shouldered portion of the garment by the sales person and that the garment may be rearranged in the rack also without touching the garment.

The construction is extremely simple and it is thought that the advantages thereof will be perfectly apparent without further detailed description.

Having described the invention, I claim:

A coat hanger comprising a holder bar, a hook having a shank passing through the bar, said shank having a head portion lying beyond one side edge of the bar, said head portion merging in an extension disposed parallel with the shank of the hook and passing through the bar, a washer applied to the shank and the extension between the head portion and the side edge of the bar, said extension being extended into a handle having a return bend portion which is wrapped around the shank of the hook and the extension at the edge of the bar opposite that edge at which the washer is located whereby the bar is clamped between the washer and the wrapped portion of the handle.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ANNA L. BROWN. 

